Nicholas Edgar Stringham Biography


	This biography appears on pages 914-915 in "History of Dakota 
	Territory" by George W. Kingsbury, Vol. IV (1915) and was 
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				NICHOLAS EDGAR STRINGHAM. 

	Nicholas Edgar Stringham, one of the successful business men of 
Sioux Falls, controlling extensive and important real-estate interests, 
was born on a farm in Huron county, Ohio, April 30, 1850, and is a son 
of William and Ruth (Slocum) Stringham. On both the paternal and 
maternal sides he is of English descent and both families were founded 
in America prior to the Revolutionary war, in which his ancestors 
engaged. In fact, when his daughter, Mrs. Shimonek, made application to 
join the Daughters of the American Revolution, it was found that she 
was eligible along four different lines. William Stringham, our 
subject's father, was born in Chautauqua county, New York, July 25, 
1822, and died November 3, 1868, at Lake City, Minnesota. He was 
married in Pennsylvania in 1842 and he and his wife removed to Wabasha 
county, Minnesota, in 1857, locating in Lake City. Of their children 
three survive, the subject of this review being the second in order of 
birth. 

	Nicholas E. Stringham acquired his education in the public 
schools of Lake City, Minnesota. and laid aside his books at the age of 
seventeen, afterward learning the blacksmith's trade. In 1878 he 
removed to Sioux Falls, South Dakota, and established a blacksmith's 
shop, which he conducted for five years. Later he turned his attention 
to the fuel and implement business, with which he remained connected 
from 1883 until 1899. Following this he removed to Garrison, Minnehaha 
county, and there established an implement and real-estate business 
which he conducted successfully for five years. He then returned to 
Sioux Falls and became a dealer in real estate and loans, since 
continuing in this line of work. He handles valuable city and farm 
property and has a large patronage, for he is known as an expert judge 
of land values and as a man of unquestioned integrity and ability. 

	In Milton township, Dodge county, Minnesota, on the 23d of 
December, 1874, Mr. Stringham married Miss Alice Jane Rowley, a 
daughter of James Stewart and Delia Elizabeth (Chapin) Rowley. Mr. and 
Mrs. Stringham have three children: Lucy Blanche, the wife of Dr. Anton 
Shimonek, of St. Paul, Minnesota; Alice Bertha, who married Dr. W. F. 
Keller, of Sioux Falls; and Jane, who is a graduate of the domestic 
science department of Drexel Institute of Philadelphia. 

	Mr. Stringham is a member of the Episcopal church and is 
connected fraternally with the Knights of Pythias, the Modern Woodmen 
of America and the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He gives his 
political allegiance to the democratic party and was for several terms 
a member of the school board. He is well known as a man of strict 
honesty and integrity, reliable in business and progressive in 
citizenship, and he holds in a high degree the respect and confidence 
of his neighbors and friends.